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/vrpg/ is a place to discuss all types of role-playing video games, including single-player, multi-player, and massively multi-player, turn-based and real-time action, western-style and JRPG.

Does this mean RPGs are banned on other video game boards? No! /vrpg/ is just a separate board specifically focused on RPGs where discussions about your favorite games can thrive.

Please familiarize yourself with the rules and remember to use the spoiler function where appropriate!

Please note that, like /v/, "Generals"—long-term, one-after-the-other, recurring threads about a specific game are not permitted on /vrpg/. Such threads belong on >>>/vg/.

Pathfinder WoTR

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Okay fags help me out I started my first run on core AND aimed for sadistic game design achievementt as added challenge. So far I've reached early chapter 2 with around 10 rests or so but the game looks like a fucking zombie survivor with how scarce your spells are and how tired everyone is between travels when you need to limit your rests to account for their overuse on lategame harder chapters.

I just got abundant casting on two of my most spell-consuming characters [Me (Eldrich archer) and Daeran] so I guess it will help a little even though in most fights I must still rely on rng and reload at least five times rather than burn out spells. I've been thinking of getting the Midnight Isles and Last Sarkorian dlcs too, but can I finish those with a minimal toll on rests? Otherwise I will keep playing the base game. Also as an unintended extra layer of challenge, for the sake of rp my chaotic character is going to become a Demon which I heard is a very rest consuming mythic path ability-wise so well I guess I just won't be using its powers a lot lol.

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>EO is still the best dungeon crawler rpg
Kneel

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A new SEQUEL game approaches, once again.
Main character announcement soon.

Which jrpg protagonist would you let put it in your butt and then tell me why it isn’t Rean. Wrpg fags need not reply.

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>Scarlet Grace timeline system, but with combos this time
>GB SaGa/SaGa Frontier setting with mechs, monsters and multiple worlds
>Six protagonists, puppet master, pretty cure, Miku Hatsune, cop duo and bishie vampire lord
>Supposedly even more complex campaigns than Scarlet Grace
>Releases somewhere in 2024
>More news at TGS in about a week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QplvkQ33EpQ

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What are the best Deot Heaven games?

Choose your own adventure games

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You will never be a real baneblood. You have no honor, you have no nobility, you have no wealth. You are men twisted by envy and lies into a crude mockery of nature’s perfection.

All the “validation” you get is two-faced and half-hearted. Behind your back people mock you. Your clubmates are disgusted and ashamed of you, your Takaran “friends” laugh at your ghoulish bane behind closed doors.

The Saints are utterly repulsed by you. Thousands of years of evolution have allowed men to sniff out baneless with incredible efficiency. Even Wulframites who “pass” look uncanny and unnatural to a commoner. Your bane is a dead giveaway. And even if you manage to get a drunk noblewoman home with you, she’ll turn tail and bolt the second she gets a whiff of your diseased, dilapidated manor.

You will never be happy. You wrench out a fake smile every single morning and tell yourself it’s going to be ok, but deep inside you feel the depression creeping up like a weed, ready to crush you under the unbearable weight.

Eventually it’ll be too much to bear - you’ll buy a revolver (Garing, Gutierrez, and Truscott™), load a percussion cap, put in a shot, and plunge into the cold abyss. Your servants will find you, heartbroken but relieved that they no longer have to live with the unbearable shame and disappointment. They’ll bury you with a headstone marked with your name and """""noble"""""house, and every passerby for the rest of eternity will know a Wulframite is buried there. Your body will decay and go back to the dust, and all that will remain of your legacy is a skeleton that is unmistakably a baneless.

This is your fate. This is what you chose. There is no turning back.

(This post was sponsored by the generosity of Her Majesty's noble house of Rendower, long may She reign)

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what is the definitive blobber of all time

Starfield is such a disappointment

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>pronouns in bio
>over half of the NPC's in New Atlantis are black
>>New Atlantis is a boring, chrome filled shopping mall devoid of soul
>every single companion is forgettable, and none of them have interesting designs
>NPC banter involves incredibly shallow complaints against capitalism, and is overall just cringe worthy
I have never been so disappointed in a game as I have been in Starfield. The mechanics are a genuine step up from the catastrophe that Fallout 4 induced by gutting the dialogue and gutting skills, the ship building is genuinely well done as well as the crafting and exploration, but holy shit everything else is abysmal. All of the weapon designs are generic, so while it still *has* Fallout 4's crafting system, it's nowhere near the same because you can't make anything that looks cool. 90% of the space suits are ugly, and you have to be an actual pirate just to wear something in space that doesn't make you look like a special needs kid. The whole NASApunk aesthetic is unflattering and soulless, and all of the food design suffers for it because all of it is in bins and plastic packaging. There's nothing interesting or captivating about this world, and all of it feels lazy and rushed. The religions are all boring, and you're forced to choose between redditors, some weird syncretic monotheists who don't even really have their stuff thought out aside from belief in some sort of God, and then a snake cult. The factions are boring too and the fact that there's so few of them makes the world feel small despite spanning literally across galaxies; and it only feels even smaller considering how much you're forced to fast travel constantly. This game is such an utter let down..

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>Baldur's Gate II+ TOB+BPII, SCS, Ascension, Tweaks, Unfinished Business, minor class re balancing, QoL UI mods

Is there even cRPG which comes close to the amount of polish and content ?

RPGM /vrpg/ (You) Jam

Ruby Long Jam

Current jams:
Long Jam #2 Ruby
https://itch.io/jam/youlongjam2ruby

The jam was extended to November. Please express your continued interest in this or other jams. There will be plenty of other jams for the October season, so I personally don't think a new one is necessary.
But you do you.

Just beat baldurs gate 1 for the first time.

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On core rules difficulty without ever looking at a guide.
Still don't see the appeal though, the writing, artstyle, and mechanics (especially magic) felt unsatisfying to me. Ive never played dnd before and maybe crpgs aren't for me but I made it half way through arcanum and much preferred the writing, features, and setting in that game.

Who the fuck actually thinks this poorly textured, gray haired 40 yr old woman is actually hot???

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honestly

Megaman BN

Bought the collection recently. I feel like i'm not getting good grades on my battles as often as i should, any tips?

Death to all normies. I am not buying Starfield.

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>after 6 weeks and 3 playthroughs still discovering new things and conversations
>just learned about Kagha and Shadow Druids

This game is Morrowind tier. Anyone who hates it, I suggest you strike your head with a hammer 36 times so you can be intelligent enough to play Fortenite or some FPS crap.

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What makes good skill trees especially if the game has no classes?

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How do I design a decent character? I want to play a sniper with some melee ability. Any build you would recommend for this?

Dungeon travalers 2 and 2-2 thread

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Since last thread hit bump limit

Sole Survivor Shepard

You SPECTREs are all racist

This would have been 5 times as based of a backstory choice if they actually mentioned that Shepard killed the Thresher Maw in 2177. Instead he just presumably fled like a coward though, failing to even avenge his fallen 50 squadmates, right? They don't go into much detail about his fight with the Thresher Maw. Could have formed some serious bro-ship connection between Commander Shepard and Urdnot Wrex, what with how they both managed the impressive feat of killing a Thresher Maw on foot early in their careers, while losing a lot of good soldiers in the process.

Its somewhat hard to even headcanon that he killed that Thresher Maw, seeing as how Corporal Toombs survived being eaten by it. So there's some kind of implication that a Cerberus squad later killed and dissected that Thresher Maw.

Is Earthborn/Sole Survivor going to be revealed as the canon choice in Mass Effect 4? Thats the most popular backstory combo among fans probably. Very kino because it highlights how Shepard's hard life growing up on the streets of Earth living the cold blooded gangster lifestyle prepared him for his battle with the Thresher Maw. But it would have been way more kino had he slayed the beast instead of fled however...

Fear and Hunger

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Imagine getting anally raped to the point your anus bleeds in a video game haha

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I want to get into Gothic but i can't stand first game's controls. Are they like that in 2 and 3, and will i miss much by skipping 1? What patches should i use for them to be playable now?

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Sweet maid, bitch fairy

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nothing ever happens

Is this the golden age of retro JRPGs?

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Or is it just hype from nostalgiafags?

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>far better than witcher 3
>has mature, deep, actually good story
>kino ost
>completely forgotten
this is why we can't have nice things anymore
https://youtu.be/mHFOLqWgpEY?si=vag2Ivk8Og_0A6iC

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This finally got released
Anyone played it?

Planescape: Torment

TNO's O-face (when he busts a nut inside you, your POV)

I thought I knew everything about Torment, but this made me kneel (and I haven't even finished it yet). Lethal levels of autism information overload.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg7K6zorPcA

New Atlantis in Starfield compared to Imperial City

New AtlantSHIT

Todd claims this is their biggest city yet, but is absolutely dwarfed by the Imperial City

New Atlantis
>Has many "huge" apartment towers but only able to travel to 1 floor with only about 2 rooms that are inaccessible unless you're on the right quest
>mostly empty space
>only a handful of stores but nothing on display is worth stealing
>most npcs are generic with no routine
>named npcs never move from their spot
>released this week with 420 employees

Imperial City
>Every building is enterable
>Every npc has a name and routine
>triple the amount of stores and things on display can be stolen
>can spy on people while they sleep
>Incredibly dense
>released in 2006 with 70 employees

For fuck sake Todd, how the fuck can this city be dwarfed by Oblivion when you have 6 times the staff and 17 years of technological progress. I'm enjoying doing the quests in Starfield but everything else is an immense downgrade compared to things they did years ago with a fraction of the staff and funding

The Witch's House

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I hate her stupid witch bitch deserves all the suffering!

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Why are Action RPGs so much more fun and exciting than cRPGs?

Dragon's Dogma 2 gameplay showcase

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are you fucking ready?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgrnghg6OkM

Ar Tonelico/Exa Pico

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How much time did you spend with Ion?

Did you only play Ar nosurge? When first meeting Ion, what were your thoughts?

Or did you play ciel first? How do you feel about Ar nosurge?

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What is the easiest way to tell you're playing a JRPG and not WRPG?

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Post the best party members who are children.

My vote goes to Eiko (6), one of the best white mages in the FF series, outclassing Dagger in healing ability and having far more useful summons including Carbuncle and Phoenix.

What's next for the Paper Mario series?

ot: spm will never recover

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Im about to start my journey for the first time in Dragon Age: Origins/Awakening. Im not a zoomer nigger and decided to play the first one since apparently sequel is gay shit.
Which class is most entertaining to play? I usually run with multiclass perhaps mage/rogue but dont know if its possible here? Any good tips for starters?

Gigachad

>Be John Baldur
>Weird lady reveals she is part of a terrorist torture cult bent on engulfing the world in darkness? Yep, too dangerous to be left alive.
>Righteously struck down the vampire abomination who tricked me and wanted to slit my throat.
>A soldier of a genocidal race that sees me as an animal is stuck in a cage? Perfect time to get rid of her.
>Weird portal thing? Better ignore it, could be dangerous.
>Oh finally a hero of the people! Nevermind, he deals with demonic abominations. Gtfo of my camp.
>Help some nice Paladins of Tyr hunt down some demon scum, got a sick sword as thanks.
>Killed off the bear in the Goblin Fort, those gates seemed brittle, wouldn't want that beast to go on a rampage.
>Slaugtered all the goblin fort bosses, they all seem fucking insane.

John Baldur, captain of Withers' interdimansional mercenary corps, at your service. Saving the Sword Coast one dead psycho at a time.

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Just what did he originally do to deserve such fate?

rpg maker hee hoo

RPG Development Thread - post about what you're working on

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Best RPG quest bar none

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>WRPGS ARE SO POZZED OMG GAY CHARACTERS WOKE POZZED JAPAN IS SAVING THE RPG GENRE FROM THE HOMOSEXUALITY OF THE WEST!
>Decide to try out jrpgs
>Try this Trails of Cold Steel game everyone used to talk about so much
>5 minutes in theres a cutscene of a lesbian talking about how much she wants to fuck all the new girls and her friend is begging her to stop turning all the girls lesbian or there will be no girls left for the boys.
Huh...

VtM - Night Road

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Dove best girl

Caves of Qud thread

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I know I'm a few years late but damn this game is deep and fun

The definition of RPGs is retarded

Let‘s take the game Thief for example. It‘s a single-player game tailor-made for the Thief experience.
>you have a sword, but don’t know any combos or special attacks
>you have a wide variety of offensive and utility arrows
>you have lockpicks, special equipment like flash bombs and mines
>in the darkest shadows you are invisible
For some reason Thief gets called an immersive sim, but not an RPG unlike Deus Ex, which is also an RPG.
Most plebs (like you) would probably agree (if you are honest) that Thief would instantly be an RPG, if they added a level-up system. You don’t just unlock new equipment in later levels, but you also unlock new abilities, which were gatekept until then.
Or what if Thief added a second and third character? A warrior and a mage?

The conventional definition of an RPG discriminates against linear, tailor-made experiences for a certain class archetype. I mean do you think it’s immersive, if every quest has the obligatory speech check to skip it, the backdoor in the quest giver‘s house to conveniently sneak in, the side-quest which has an NPC be thankful to you to get the same result as the speech check? Is that immersive? Especially if you qualify for all of these things at the same time?
There is also another type of discrimination going on. Thief is not an Action game. Immersive Sims aren’t a genre. It needs to fit in somewhere. And Thief is basically just the immersive simulation of a typical cRPG, which abstracts things like hiding, lockpicking, climbing with skill checks. Thief simulates these things directly, instead of abstracting it. This just means you are like the Codexfags, who cry when games are trying different things than just copying the tabletop formula 1:1 to the pc.

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If you use auto battle on RPGs you should be shot on sight, what's the difference between that and mobile slop?
Not just in picrel, but in any turn-based RPG

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Play Tales of

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What are you playing?
Any game you're looking forward to?

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What are the best "niggas on a grid" games? Is the tactics ogre remake good?

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Its funny how hype for this game dropped as soon as the trailer was revealed.

Ruina: Fairy Tale of the Forgotten Ruins

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here's some news about the Ruina: Fairy Tale of the Forgotten Ruins remake
the soulless chinese did it again
>no more "Ruina" in the title (fuck you Library Of Ruina
>no more pixel art, everything's an illustration now
>you can see the enemies's hp bars
>the bosses have been buffed
>no more moving through the map with the grid system, now you have to slooowly move a cursor
>apparently there's a slow transition when you move through the menus
>and, most importantly, there was no TTEXP mechanic (but maybe because it was a demo)

moral of the story: go play the free version

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DDO is dated in some ways, is 17 years old, and no longer has much of a player base. Despite that, it's still one of the best MMOs today. The build variety is massive. The dungeons are actual adventures with secrets, verticality, puzzles, and class utility. It has 3.5e soul.

The worst design element of cRPGs

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>imagine being an extremely charismatic person with a natural inclination for diplomacy and communication
>train for YEARS in understanding the psychology behind convincing people, win their favor, influence minds and deceive dullards. You become a veritable professional of smooth talking
>approach the most gullible man in the kingdom with the intent of persuading them to do something
>yfw you can NEVER EVER succeed because the universe rolled a dice and decided that today all your skills and qualities amount to jack shit and that NONE of your choices mattered
When will RPG devs move away from this asinine, archaic design that has no place inside a video game? You guys don't actually like this gambling garbage in your cRPGs, do you?

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What monsters have you been collecting/raising?
With the new DQM on the horizon are going to play the others to catch-up?

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Can anyone give me tips and hints? The first couple hours of this game were a struggle. I just got the waterchip back to the vault, seems like I am freed up to do sidequesting now. (Patch version 1.1 so no gameover from supermutants)

Where should I go? how do I get armor? is the only places to get rope the Hub or stealing it from Seth of Shady Sands?

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What build am I rollin' with today, sisters?

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Why don't rpg enthusiasts care abut this game? It's less brought up than mediocre titles such as Icewind Dale, despite being a Troika game

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Give me RPG essentials you think i should play.
ive been triying to get into rpgs all summer
Played already:
>Earthbound
>chrono trigger
>Lisa the painful
>Mario Rpg

Name a single more ugly RPG art style

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New Bloodlines 2 trailer

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The suffering will never end, my fellow kindred
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6b6LGubq6I

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I like this

Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord remake

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3D remake of Wiz 1 out in early access now. Built on top of the 1981 code base so underneath the new GUI, QoL stuff and graphics it's presumable mechanically identical.

Now that the dust has settled

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which one takes the modern crpg crown

Sexless Cyberpunk

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>Phantom Liberty adds "femme fatale" characters
>You can't fuck any of them
>No added sex options
>No added romance options
>Still can't comfort Misty
>Still can't fuck Blue Moon
>Still can't fuck Judy unless you're a dyke
>Meredith is still a complete nothingburger
How the fuck is Cyberpunk so sexless compared to the Witcher? These LGBT idiots seriously stripped out all the options for straight men to "balance" content for gays and lesbians. So in the end nobody gets anything. Weak.

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Who is your favorite MC of all the RPGs you've played?

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I'm not jocking, rec me rpg that has a better story than cyberpunk2077, witcher 1,2
jrpgs also welcomed

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Are any of these worth playing?

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Is he /ourguy/?

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Is the game itself at least "decent"?
I'm always fascinated whenever a shonen has a turn based RPG come out.

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/vrpg/ verdict

Cannon Adrian Portrait

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Don't believe their lies. This is how he looked.

TES 6 killable children, what would happen in this hypothetical?

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>Implausible hypothetical situation
>Todd Howard announces The Elder Scrolls 6 will include no essential NPCs, even killable children will be a vanilla feature from launch
>What happens next?

What would happen anons? What are the societal implications? We can't have nice things like this because politics or some shit right? I remember every news outlet was freaking the fuck out over the 15 seconds of partial nudity in Mass Effect 1. But why? They wanted to pretend to be offended to score some good boy points on their """social credit score"""?

How would this play out if Todd Howard went full fucking giga chad and made this Official Statement? Would Todd, Bethesda and Elder Scrolls be quickly canceled entirely? Polite society would crucify The Toddhead wouldn't they? Thoughts?

ITT Hard Mode Mods

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Post mods or romhacks that make an RPG harder, in one way or another.

I'll start with Final Fantasy V: Void Divergence. It implements elements from the Bravely and SaGa games, namely moving a future turn to the present or taking one two turns later, as well as SaGa's LP system (unfortunately only for bosses) and a similar field element system.
It also overhauls the job system and adds an expert mode.

race is not a factor

rpgs where I can use disease, contagion, skills and damage that spread from one person to another?

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Is Daggerfall a great game?

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You don't play JAPANESE RPGs in English, do you?

JAPANESE
>Grunts at the bottom of the pillar say "why would Avalanche want to blow up the pillar?" indicating that Shinra lied to them and they're not there to literally kill themselves
ENGLISH
>"Why is Avalanche such a bunch of fucking assholes?"

JAPANESE
>Barret: "It's that guy from before!"
>Aerith: "No it's not." (Indicating it's the real Sephiroth)
ENGLISH
>Barret: "Hey asshole!"
>Aerith: "Don't."

MARL KINGDOM CHRONICLES

Opinions? Thoughts?

I’m on Act 6 of Ballad of the Little Princess. It’s really charming if simple.

I wish they’d dubbed the songs in English as well (that was a huge part of the charm in Rhapsody for me) but I recognize that these two sequels getting localized at all is a miracle.

There’s almost no English guides out there, so I’m a little paranoid about missing out on puppets and side quests/missable in general.

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Why aren't you buying the EPIC LE TRVE HARDCOREZ RPG?

Artix Entertainment

Do you have any long term goals you're working on? Only recently started playing again but I always have the Radiant Goddess set in the back of my mind

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I love this little guy like you wouldn't believe

/neverwinter nights/ thread, what modules/pws we playing on?

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>we added this magic mirror so you can change your appearance mid game
>no you still can't change the appearance of hirings because you chuds will just make more white male characters and it is super important you play as our black hirlings

Will this ever get an enhance edition

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Nw2 is forgotten way too much,i remember having fun with it

Mystery Dungeon Thread

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With the announcement of Shiren 6, I've decided to make another Shiren/Mystery Dungeon thread. What do you think? Does this news all but confim another new Pokemon Mystery Dungeon? Will Shiren 6 live up to the old games like Tomie promised? Or will it be panned by hardcore fans like 3 was? Oh yeah, will Torneko make a return?

Dragon Quest Monsters

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WHY CAN'T IT BE DECEMBER ALREADY? I WANNA PLAY MORE DQM ITS BEEN 12 AMERICAN YEARS SINCE JOKER 2

12 MILLION COPIES SOLD

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Normies and their precious Starfield and autists who hate BG3 because X can all go collectively jump off a bridge. If they can get their Wingsofredemption bodies to move.

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Is it me or Rogue Trader doesn't really work well as standard-fare CRPG given the player character's status? You aren't some schmuck and every time I met NPCs in the first solar system the only logical dialogue option was "Werserian, tell this faggot who he's dealing with before we blast him for such disrespect and rudeness." Taking quests like "have you seen this literally who man on another planet" from nobodies doesn't make sense either because you aren't some interplanetary bellboy. I could look the other way in Kingmaker because you were just a random adventurer tricked into a role of Baron. I still could look the other way in WotR because you were a nobody who rose to military power and were dealing with more or less local conflict. But here you're at the helm of a ship with thousands people on board, traveling across vast space. It doesn't make much sense.

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Imagine if we saw the death of Bethesda, Obsidian, and inXile in just four years.

Star Ocean 2 Remaster Demo

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Just played through the whole 3 hours in one sitting, it's really great.
I was originally planning on getting it for my Switch but the graphics are genuinely really pretty, I was pretty skeptical about the 3D environments from the trailers and screenshots but it looks great when you're playing it.

I don't really have any complaints except the combat is really fucking easy in the start, but when you get your party member and leave for the adventure it suddenly gets much, much harder.
Oh, usually I like vidya dubs but this one is just awful. Do yourself a favor and use Japanese voices, particularly the "SO2SE" option.

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Playing BG3 made me realize how good BG1 was. Thanks Larian.

Touhou Artificial Dream in Arcadia

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The first real SMT game in over a decade is a Russian Touhou fangame. Absolute state of Fatlus

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2248430/Touhou_Artificial_Dream_in_Arcadia/

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ITT: Popular 'cult classic' RPGs that for some reason you just could never get into and why. It's probably impossible given that this is /vrpg/, but try not to shitfling either at the games, or at people posting about them.

For my it's VTM: Bloodlines. The combat implementation in it is just unfun, and I had the misfortune of playing VTM: Night Road a year before (which did writing/dialogue/choice better as you would expect from a semi CYOA) so the plot beats and dialogue didn't grab me like they would have someone in 2004. The voice acting was mostly good though.

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RF3S english release in 36 hours!

>no news yet:
>Rune Factory Project Dragon (Eastern continent themed spinoff)
>Rune Factory 6 (Western continent themed mainline)

Grand army jrpg?

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Don't know why this idea fascinated me so much but I'm really in the mood to command a bunch of aceless merchs and goons.
So far I've got Ogre Battle and Dragon Force on the backlog but I'm wondering if there are anymore in the same vein.
no fire emblem. The less unique the units the better

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doi is a fucking hack and new atlus sucks
bring back kaneko and fucking port the original megaten games! yes even nine and kyuuyaku

Thoughts on the .Hack Series?

Im a big fan of the G.U. games but other than thought that what is the general opinion on the franchise?

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What RPGs have actually great writing? Not 'good by vidya standards', but actually great writing. Doesn't have to be high concept or unique to the point of being gimmicky, it just need to be clever and human.

I've played a few RPGs and usually the writing is flavorless and when the game expects me to kill 30 Slimes to progress to the next dialogue scene I just tune out and think about all the much better paced fantasy novels I could be reading instead.

Include examples.

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Thoughts on Granblue Fantasy: ReLink

>everybody loves sun
>everybody hates twilight
What about wars? Everybody silently agrees it was a game but nobody is praising it, how come?

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Because it never hurts to share:
FF7 is a story of idol worship, false gods, and Man's tendency to want to be God. All these remakes and expansions of the FF7 world miss the mark because they forget the foundation that made FF7 a profound story.

Gaia is God.
The lifestream is the Ruah. The divine breath of God. The source of life as such.
Jenova is Satan. The enemy of God, the deceiver. The new god. The false god.
Shinra is the world of Man. Man worships Jenova in an attempt to attain godhood. Shinra harnesses the divine breath for selfish gain.
Sephiroth is the antichrist. The son of Satan, and a product of the will of Man. It's no coincidence that Savior Sephiroth has the appearance of a gimped angel.
Weapons are angels. A testament to God's authority.
All the main characters are representations of the Jewish Sephirot. Aspects by which God reveals Itself. Cloud is the Keter, Tifa is the Tifaret, etc. Cloud also obviously represents the Christ in opposition to the antichrist.
Meteor is the ultimate consequence of worshipping Jenova. The ender of worlds.

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>the RPG with the most character choice, branching options, and ways to express your character's personality is a fucking MMO
How did Bioware do it?

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it’s unironically a pretty good game other than some repetition and the story being kinda lame.

had fun with it i’d put it up there with kh

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Is the greatest RPG in history.

It was 8/10.
With the free update 2.0 and the paid expansion Phantom Liberty, it is now 10/10.

Good work, you Polish jacks of all trades!

For anyone getting into Pathfinder

download

People who like and people who dislike this game will probably describe it to you in the same way.

>"it's not actually hard it just knowledge checks you all the time"
That's absolutely true. Some people like this, some people hate it.

>"it's build autismo isn't actually deep it just has many trap options and bloat"
Another thing many people hate, but many people like it as well.

>"it is super SUPER long and overstays it's welcome"
Yeah. It could probably be cut in half and not lose much substance. I don't mind this tho, as I enjoy testing my builds and different approaches to te game overall. Most of you hate it and it's justifiable.

I love it when the game has garbage trap options, godly OP ones and everything in between. Part of the fun for me is discovering which is which. It satisfies my optimizaiton autism (It extends way beyond RPG number crunching in my case personally) but I totally see why some people don't like it. Games that play it safe and make almost every option equally viable, are almost inherently less fun and bland for min maxxers. I am looking at you Balanceman, fuck you.

Now the question is - Are you a minmaxxing autist like me? Do you want to just install your anime portraits and enjoy the story? Pathfinder can offer something for both, you just have to taper you expectations. If you want to play it totally chill and laid back without reading guides and doing your homework literally, you might even play it on difficulties less than normal. (Depending on how familiar you are with D&D) And I recommend almost never spoon feeding yourself with guides, just learning the info on your own. At least, that's where 90% of the fun came from for me.

Kingmaker is also way WAY better than WOTR. I mean, I am a Pathfinder fan but WOTR is just garbage besides build autismo and some replay value offered by mythic paths. (Also, why is that game so fucking PURPLE? It is a literal eye sore.) If you are getting into Pathfinder please don't start with WOTR.

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I don't get it.

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>play BG3 or BG1
>reach the titular city
>game drops from a 9/10 to a 6/10
ok wtf this happened twice why is the city of Baldur's Gate so fucking cursed bros???

Nopons vs. Moogles

nopon vs moogle

THE RACE WAR STARTS NOW!!!

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What are some isometric rpgs where you only control a single character (besides Fallout)?
Real time, turn-based or Real time w/pause.

Duergar Trouble

DuergarBS

>Go to the underdark as a Duergar
>Sneak up on this guy
>Tell him we're kin
>Game gets locked into three options, all which initiate combat

>Go to the underdark as a Drow
>This guy sucks me off and lets me past
Bravo, Larian

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Are RPGs getting worse?

I remember being a kid and getting FF7. Everyone on the internet crying their hearts out because “omg they killed off Aeris a dear party member”. Bitch please. Before that we had the awesome General Leo. He got killed in cold blood by Kefka. Man had morals despite being in the Empire. Puts himself before his fellow men. And for what? To be killed off by an asshole clown. But nobody cried about General Leo’s death. And I think I know why. It’s because he’s black. The world stopped turning when Aeris died because she’s white and the media only cries when a white woman died. Black man dies and it’s just “musta been in a gang or something”. General Leo is no thug.

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The only truly great Ivalice game.
Blows the fuck out of FFT, TA, TA2 and XII.

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Does she deserve the hate?

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What if they remade Mother 3?

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Who else is hyped for Atelier Resleri?

BG3 Cucks Explain Yourselves

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What the fuck is this shit?

Adventurer's Map

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What would be the Hero's path?

Trails through Daybreak

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL7E_fCLJ4w
Kuro no Kiseki localized as Trails through Daybreak. Coming Summer 2024. Release on Switch/PS4/PS5/PC. The era of Rean is finally over.

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How is your play through going before DD2 comes out?
>DD2 demo at TGS
Hype? What's your guess for a release date?
Post pawns.

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What's your opinion on CP?
I admit that while the game as a whole isn't all that amazing, it's full of good ideas that should become standard in the genre.

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Is this the only JRPG that can stand tall with cRPGs?

Best Tales of game to start with?

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Want to get into the series but the game that gets recommended to me every 5 seconds is symphonia. Any OTHER good tales of games?

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If it allows me to roleplay, than it's an RPG.

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>NOOOOOO YOU CANNOT INTRODUCE NEW PLAYERS TO THE LORE OF THE WORLD YOU CAN'T HAVE THE MC ASK WHAT IS A PALADIN YOU JUST CANT OKAY

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How do you cope with the fact that there will never be another game like this?

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Lennus is extremely average bros

It has a beautiful alien world and almost nothing else that stands out

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Anyone remember this game?

Unicorn Overlord

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Say something nice about new Vanillaware kino.

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I'm about 10 hours into picrel and having a lot of fun. What are some tips and tricks I should know for the rest of the game?

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No seriously, I do not get why this is an issue. I'm asking this as a guy who decided to get into RPGS after liking Bowsers Inside Story at 13 and still does like Ninty.

holy land

Hat World is an incredible freeware doujin RPG where you choose one of six main characters and play through their unique campaigns. It has an exceptionally good turn-based battle system, some very challenging boss fights, sidescrolling platformer exploration, and great storytelling, visuals, and music all throughout.

Hat World got a high quality fan translation last year and you can download it here:
https://mega.nz/folder/09FRHYSR#VKxBWy9oTNffPNJlnvsEBA

Hat World fans have recently gotten reason to rejoice: Enu is alive! He survived his cancer surgery and is back at work on his SRPG. Thank god. The world still needs him. You can read more at his (Japanese language) blog:
https://rpgex.sakura.ne.jp/home/

Celes Cid

ITT: times when it's acceptable to cry.

Phantasy Star online 2

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Whats your opinion on this game, I'm thinking of playing it and wondering if its worth it.

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>game begins with you washed up on a beach

Actually surprised nobody noticed this in the new Persona 3 trailer

ffl

Do you care about leveling up all your stats to the max level?

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>Baten Kaitos remasters come out
>Absolutely no one talking about it
Did they fuck it up?

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Warcraft was always Warhammer for chicks.

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So what exactly prevents me from killing everyone after doing their quests for free xp?

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Name a better layout for classic JRPGs

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Just started picrel for the first time today & I'm really loving the darkness & sparse nature of the world. The dialogue system is my favorite of any RPG so far. One thing I can't shake so far is how mundane many of the quests feel. I've been doing a bunch of Fighters Guild contracts & nearly every one of them is "Go to X...collect Y". Is the main quest better or is it more of the same? For reference, I kept it simple & I'm doing a classic board & sword fighter.

>shit enix charges 70 dollars for this

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imagine having worse graphics than ps1 games

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>nostalgia fags will rather cut off their penis and rape their mother before admitting a new game is good
Why are they like this???

What class would Varg Bikernes be in an RPG?

Starting this thread again since the mods deleted the original one DESPITE THIS THREAD ASKING AN RPG RELATED QUESTION. Pic related is my Varg character in BG3 as a Druid.

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Didn't think in [current year] I'd have to buy a "memory card". I added 2TBs of storage to my PS5 so I can play more than 3 RPGs by Square Enix. How many more games do you think they'll release in the PS5's lifetime?
I should have enough space, right?

I was expecting to play FF7 Rebirth this Fall but they delayed it.

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It's a fact that gaming never really needed "more" than this.

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Why is this game so disliked?

Possibly Lost RPG Maker Game - Annventure Nihilism

Annventure Nihilism

The other day in a Deltarune thread on /v/, some anon mentioned a series of RPG Maker games called Annventure made by a dev who died. I wanted to try out all the games since it was a series, but there's one that I can't seem to find: Annventure Nihilism
>picrel
I had to use the wayback machine to access the site, but the download from there doesn't work. Even the original creator Luunii/Enflared doesn't host a link on any social media.
The only existence of this game in full that I can find is a vtuber playing through the game:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZy4au9VGAzeViF3okPqT_rOHExdtdBzH
The link to the game isn't even in the description of more than half of the videos in that playlist.
Other than that, there's maybe one or two pieces of amateur fan art that can be found on google, but most just loops back to the whole Annventure series.
Considering that this was a really unknown game from Game Jolt, I doubt anyone would even recognize it, let alone know where it is.

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Best Paper Mario Games Of All Time?

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Is Final Fantasy VIII the definitive masterpiece of the JRPG genre?

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play Violated Princess

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Have any of you attempted to Yassify Gortash into the perfect David Bowie pragmatic villain?